Travel Photography | Choosing The Right Lens
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | KLCC Kuala Lumpur City Centre Park | Children’s Pool | 10 – 20mm
Sometime having the right lens does matter in term of story telling especially in travel photography. Most of the times in travel photography, we want to include all the landmark that we can fit into the frame. In this case, I need to include the Petronas Twin Tower behind as my backdrop, so people will know where this picture is taken, which is at KLCC children’s pool area. To someone who haven’t visit here will also know that this area is close to the tower and to the foreigners can relate the tower with Malaysia because it is one of Malaysia famous landmark.
The photograph above were taken with UWA or Ultra Wide Angle Lens 10 – 20mm to be exact. I haven’t tried with any other lens but I guess if we try to photographs from this place with a standard lens like 50mm, I don’t think we can manage to fit the tower in the frame. I mean from top to bottom, we might get only half of the tower in the frame. Just a simple shot of what we can do with UWA lens. The right lens sometimes tells a story better about the place and its surroundings.
